High-speed plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator in a waveguide

European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Haffner, C ^a   Heni, W ^a   Fedoryshyn, Y ^a   Elder, D L ^b   Melikyan, A ^c   Baeuerle, B ^a   Niegemann, J ^a   Emboras, A ^a   Josten, A ^a   Ducry, F ^a   Kohl, M ^c   Dalton, L R ^b   Hillerkuss, D ^a   Hafner, C ^a   Leuthold, J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PLASMONICS; WAVEGUIDES;

FULLY INTEGRATED; HIGH SPEED; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; SILICON WAVEGUIDE;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84915748890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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